Bayswater Uranium Corporation (TSX-V: BAY),
(OTC: BYSWF)
is pleased to announce that it has executed an Option Agreement
"Option” with CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. (TSX.V: CVV)
"CanAlaska” to explore Bayswater’s Collins Bay Extension uranium
project "Project” in the Athabasca Basin. The Project is situated
directly adjacent to and following the North-East strike extension of
Cameco Corp.’s (TSX: CCO)
past-producing uranium mines at Rabbit Lake and Collins Bay, and current
producing uranium mine at Eagle Point in the Eastern Athabasca Basin of
Saskatchewan. The Collins Bay Extension contains a significant number of
exploration targets within the Snowbird and Fife Island areas.
Under the terms of the Option, CanAlaska shall act as the exploration
operator and may earn a 51% participating interest in the Project by
undertaking a minimum of Cdn$4 million in exploration expenditures
within 5 years and issuing a total of CanAlaska 500,000 shares to
Bayswater over this period. CanAlaska may increase its participating
interest in the Project to a 70% level by successfully undertaking a
further Cdn$2 million in exploration expenditures over a period of 3
years.
Collins Bay Extension Project
CanAlaska’s prime focus in the current exploration season is to re-visit
and drill test the structurally-controlled uranium mineralization
intersected in historical (1984) Minatco drill holes MWLD8 to MWLD13.
The best of these holes intersected 0.152% U3O8
over 4 metres (over 3 pounds per ton U3O8),
along an offset structure on the northern part of Fife Island, in an
area designated as the "VIC” zone.
The geological trends mapped in the Eagle Point-Collins Bay uranium
mines and surrounding areas extend to the north and east onto the
Collins Bay Extension property. Historical exploration dating from the
late 1960’s was controlled by large corporations, such as by Gulf
Minerals, E&B Explorations, Minatco Ltd (now part of AREVA), SMDC and
Cameco. These exploration efforts involved extensive use of then-current
geophysical survey techniques and made multiple uranium discoveries,
evidenced by uranium mineralization in drill holes in four separate
areas. Ten areas of the property produced geological and structural
targets. However, a total of only 73 diamond drill holes were drilled on
this extensive property throughout these years through to 2008. This
amounted to less than one drill hole per 5 square kilometres. This
minimal quantity of physical drilling of the significant targets from
the early exploration provides CanAlaska an excellent opportunity to
test prime exploration targets in a highly productive uranium
exploration territory.
The historical drill holes on the Project were not evenly distributed,
but were concentrated in clusters within the North Fife area in the
north part of the property, the Northern Snowshoe Island – Greenway
Peninsula area in the west-center of the property, and the Rabbit Lake
North area in the south of the property. These areas remain prime
targets for further exploration. Similarly, the target containing the
source of the Pow Bay uranium mineralized boulder train, north-east of
the Rabbit Lake deposit, is thought to be under the lake-covered portion
of the southern part of the Collins Bay extension property. In all of
these areas, the postulated pre-existing Athabasca sandstone has been
removed by erosion, and the uranium exploration will be for Athabasca
"basement style” unconformity targets, such as the Eagle Point or Rabbit
Lake deposits.
In 2007, Northern Canadian Uranium (NCU), the previous operator of the
property, carried out a small drill program totaling 1,330 meters in 5
holes on a newly identified target, intersecting narrow intervals of
sub-economic mineralization at the northern end of Snowshoe Island (up
to 0.03% U3O8 over 2.0 metres from drill hole
CBE07-06. In 2008, NCU carried out 2,014 line-km of modern VTEM
geophysical surveys over most of the Project, including the area east of
the Pow Bay mineralized boulder train. In late 2007, NCU was amalgamated
with Bayswater Uranium, and Bayswater carried out a drilling program in
early 2008 consisting of 3,510 m of drilling in 12 drill holes. All
these holes intersected favourable lithologies of the basal Wollaston
group of metasediments, which host all the basement hosted unconformity
related deposits in the eastern Athabasca basin, and one hole interested
710 ppm U in a tourmaline rich pegmatite.
There still remain untested high priority targets on the project area.
The geology and target figures show the strong structural trends and
zones of conductor targets on strike and adjacent to the know uranium
mine mineralization in the Rabbit Lake and Collins Bay/Eagle Point
mineral trends. For further information on the Collins Bay Extension
visit www.bayswateruranium.com.
Since 2005, CanAlaska has successfully carried out over 4,000 line
kilometres of marine seismic survey mapping within areas of the
Athabasca Basin. CanAlaska intends to utilize this extensive experience
with seismic surveys to map near shore lake targets peripheral to the
know mines and mineral showings. CanAlaska intends to carry out an
initial drill program on the Fife Island, "VIC” zone mineralization,
commencing in August, 2009.
CanAlaska President Peter Dasler, commented, "CanAlaska has been
focusing its 2009 summer exploration on drill testing near-surface
uranium targets on the Northern Rim of the Athabasca Basin, on its Black
Lake, Fond Du Lac and Grease River projects. The opportunity to combine
these logistical operations on a readily accessible project, which has
associated road and power infrastructure, is significant. The Collins
Bay Extension Project hosts multiple zones of known uranium
mineralization, and on Fife Island, at least one zone of ore-grade
values. This latter target has not been investigated since 1984. The
publicly available updates on style and geology of the mineral deposits
at the current mines in the trend, coupled with the advanced modern
geophysical modeling that CanAlaska staff is regularly carrying out,
provides us with the knowledge to define very strong exploration targets
on the project. It is fortuitous that CanAlaska has the funding and
personnel in place to advance this significant exploration opportunity.”
Bayswater President George Leary, stated, "This Agreement enables us to
continue to advance the Collins Bay Extension Project while we focus on
our advanced-stage properties and opportunities. We’re delighted to
partner with CanAlaska as they have considerable exploration experience
in the Athabasca Basin.”
About CanAlaska Uranium Ltd. -- www.canalaska.com
CANALASKA URANIUM LTD. (CVV -- TSX.V, CVVUF -- OTCBB, DH7 -- Frankfurt)
is undertaking uranium exploration in twenty 100%-owned and two optioned
uranium projects in Canada's Athabasca Basin. Since September 2004, the
Company has aggressively acquired one of the largest land positions in
the region, comprising over 2,500,000 acres (10,117 sq. km or 3,906 sq.
miles). To-date, CanAlaska has expended over Cdn$50 million exploring
its properties and has delineated multiple uranium targets. The
Company's geological expertise and high exploration profile has
attracted the attention of major international strategic partners. Among
others, Mitsubishi Development Pty., a subsidiary of Japanese
conglomerate Mitsubishi Corporation, has undertaken to provide CanAlaska
C$11 mil. in exploration funding for its West McArthur Project.
Exploration of CanAlaska's Cree East Project is also progressing under a
C$19 mil. joint venture with a consortium of Korean companies led by
Hanwha Corporation, and comprising Korea Electric Power Corp., Korea
Resources Corp. and SK Energy Co, Ltd. Memoranda of Understanding have
also been executed with mining partner East Resources Inc. to commence
exploration on the Poplar and NE Wollaston Projects, comprising a
potential 100,000 metres of drill testing on each property.
About Bayswater Uranium Corporation - The Super Junior Uranium Company
TM
Bayswater Uranium Corporation is an international uranium exploration
and development company. The Company owns several advanced uranium
properties in the United States with significant historical resources
that may be amenable to ISR and/or conventional mining. As well,
Bayswater is the only uranium company to have major landholdings in each
of Canada's most important producing and exploration regions - the
Athabasca Basin, the Central Mineral Belt, and the Thelon Basin.
Bayswater combines a balanced portfolio of advanced and exploration
projects with the uranium expertise of its technical and managerial
teams. To capitalize on current market conditions and strong growth of
the nuclear industry, the Company is pursuing acquisition opportunities
of advanced-stage uranium projects with near-term production potential.
Bayswater's vision is to build a major international uranium company.
Shares of the Company are listed on the TSX Venture Exchange under the
symbol "BAY”. For further information visit www.bayswateruranium.com.
On behalf of the Board of:
BAYSWATER URANIUM CORPORATION
George M. Leary
President and CEO
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